Rick Moody

If you see something strange floating through your Twitter feed over the next few days, don't be alarmed. The Twitter Fiction Festival kicked off Monday and is to include an amnesiac Lemony Snicket, a cut-up tale by science fiction writer Margaret Atwood, and "Star Wars" couples rendered in Shakespearean couplets. The first story is by Celeste Ng, whose debut novel, "Everything I Never Told You," was one of last year's most celebrated books. In her Twitter fiction story, Ng unearths a love story left in library books --- told 140 characters at a time, of course. Later in the day, novelist Jonathan Evison is previewing his upcoming book "This...

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